Picture-hook hanger.



No. 703,|78. Patented June 24, I902.

M. A. BYE. PICTURE HOOK HANGER.

(Application filed Oct. 26, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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WrrNEssEs rsr M HER'ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY ALICE BYE, OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR F ONE-HALF TO CHARLEST. LEONARD, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

PICTURE-HOOK HANGER.

$PECIFIGATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 703,178, dated June24, 1902.

Application filed October 26, 1900. Serial No. 34,402. No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY ALICE BYE, of

Nashville, Davidson county, Tennessee,have

invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Picture-Hook Hangers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices designed for use in hanging or takingdown pictures, mirrors, maps, and other articles that are usu to allysuspended from a molding on the wall.

It is always a disagreeable undertaking and frequently a difficult oneto hang a picture or other article or to remove it for cleansingpurposes or to change its location, it being necessary usually to standon a chair or step-ladder and support the picture with one hand andmanipulate the hook with the other. This has been foundespeciallyinconvenient when two independent hooks and a single wire orindependent wires are used for supporting the picture.

The object, therefore, of my invention is to provide a simpleinexpensive device by means of which picture-hooks can be easily andconveniently attached to or detached from a molding.

A further and particular object of the invention is to provide a deviceespecially for use where two hooks and a single wire or independentwires are employed to support the picture.

The invention consists generally in various constructions andcombinations, all as hereinafter described,and particularly pointed outin the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 is a perspective illustrating my improved picturehook hanger in use.Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the method of supporting the hook inthe hanger when a single wire is employed. Fig. 3 is a perspective ofthe device removed from its pole or stick. Figs. 4 and 5 arerespectively side and front elevations of the device. Fig. 6 is aVertical section on the line 00 of Fig. 5.

In the drawings, 2 represents a section of picture-molding, and 3 anordinary picturehook.

5o 4. is the main portion or body member of the hanger, preferablycylindrical or cupshaped in form, having a socket 5 to receive the endof a stick, broom-handle, or pole. The top of the member 4 is providedwith arms 6 and 7, the arm 6 being preferably longer than the arm 7 andinwardly curved to overhang the top of the part 4. Between the arms 6and 7 a curved surface 8 is provided,whereon the lower end of the hookrests when it is being placed in position on the molding. The arm 7 isprovided with a vertical slot 9 to receive the picture wire or chainwhen two hooks and a single or independent wire are employed to supportthe picture. When a single hook is used, the wire is passed across thelower end of the hook between the arms 6 and 7, holding the hook firmlyon the surface 8 between said arms while the picture is being raised orlowered.

In placing a hook on the molding the operator raises the hanger untilthe top of the hook is in proper position to engage the molding, andthen by swinging the hanger-pole out at the bottom the upper portion ofthe arm 6 will engage the top of the hook and push it in over the top ofthe molding to its seat thereon. To disengage the hook from the molding,it is necessary simply to push up on the hanger-handle.

In Fig. 3 I have shown the device made of sheet metal stamped out andfolded into the desired shape and provided between the arms 6 and 7 witha cross-bar 10 to support the hook. In the remaining figures of thedrawings Ihave shown the device as a casting adapted to be secured tothe end of a stick or pole. This device is neat and compact inconstruction, easily attached to or detached from a pole, the armsthereon being continuao tions of the walls of the device, and, insubstantially the same vertical plane. There are consequently nolaterally projecting parts that are apt to catch on the molding orinterfere in any way with the hanging or taking 5 down of a picture. Thecurved surface of the hanger between its upwardly-projecting arms formsa firm stable seat for the curved lower end of the hook, which will beheld securely thereon by the wire and the weight of. the picture.

Various modifications in the details of the.

device will suggest themselves to any one skilled in the art, and I donot wish, therefore, to be confined to the particular constructiondescribed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. A picture hook hanger, comprising a body memberhaving a recess or socket, a suitable pole or stick fitting therein,arms provided on said member between which the hook is supported, one ofsaid arms having a Vertical slot, for the purpose specified.

2. A picture-hook hanger, comprising a body member having a socket orrecess, a suitable pole or stick fitting therein, arms provided on saidmember between which the hook is supported, one of said arms beinglonger than the other and the shorter arm being provided with a verticalslot, for the purpose specified.

3. A picture-hook hanger, comprising a body member having a socket orrecess, a suitable pole or stick fitting therein, arms provided on saidmember between which the hook ,is supported, one of said arms beinglonger than the other and inwardly curved and adapted to engage theupper portion of the hook and direct it to its seat on the molding andthe shorter arm being provided with a vertical slot, for the purposespecified.

4. A picture-hook hanger, comprising a substantially cylindrical cap 4having a socket 5 to receive the end of a pole or stick, arms 6 and 7provided at the upper end of said cap and forming continuations of theopposite walls thereof, the end of said cap between said arms beingprovided with a curved surface 8,conforming substantially to the curvedend of a picture-hook, and the arm 6 being inwardly curvedto overhangsaid surface and engage the curved upper surface of the hook and aid inseating the same on the molding.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day ofSeptember, 1900.

MARY ALICE BYE.

In presence of- O. G. HAWLEY, M. E. GooLEY.

